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A round-up of the news and some context around Microsoft burrowing down further into Kubernetes-land by acquiring Deis:

The deal & market

Microsoft: “Deis gives developers the means to vastly improve application agility, efficiency and reliability through their Kubernetes container management technologies…. We expect Deis’ technology to make it even easier for customers to work with our existing container portfolio including Linux and Windows Server Containers, Hyper-V Containers and Azure Container Service, no matter what tools they choose to use.”

Deis: “We look forward to making Azure the best place to run containerized workloads.”

No deal-size was disclosed, of course, but Deis was small and I’m guessing it didn’t fit into EngineYard’s overall strategy, or what (little?) cash they got was a nice to have versus synergies of keeping Deis.

Containers are rising in usage, as 451’s Donnie said: “Our latest data says production use of containers has doubled from 10.2% to 22.5% of orgs between Q1 and Q3 2015. Amazing.”

The technology: not so much PaaS anymore, but Kubernetes management

“Creator at CTO at Deis”: “Best to think of Deis as a Kubernetes company. We are much more than the PaaS solution many folks know us for.”

CNCF exec director: “their Workflow product (also open source), is basically the smallest piece of software that lets you run Heroku buildpacks on top of Kubernetes. So, you can get a 12-factor PaaS workflow, and still have the full Kubernetes API underneath if and when you need it.”

Microsoft likes Kubernetes

Seems like Microsoft has gone all k8-crazy. So this is adding k8 support and some cloud-native services/middleware (package mgmt, routing, etc.) to Azure?

Or, put another way: “Satya is like the Pope Francis of software,” says Alex Polvi, founder and CEO of CoreOS, a company that plays in the same area as Deis. “He took this old institution and made it cool again.”